學術研討會之必要？藉科學社群與社會網路分析的再理解

Why conference matters? Understanding it via the concepts of scientific community and social network analysis

張時健(Shih-Chien Chang)

《傳播文化與政治》 10期 (2019/12) Pp. 103-119

摘要

為了知識的求取、應用與更新，研討會的意義何在？本文藉科學社群與社會網路分析的視角，以作者的親身經歷為案例，指認研討會體現了科學社群的結構與相應的知識系譜，而知識合法性寓居其中。社群成員遵循互動常模進行臨場對話，動態地確認一己與他人在知識系譜上的相對位置，從而可辨認知識社群的核心與邊陲構造。本文並寄希望於邊陲位置，以期推進知識典範的更新。

關鍵字

知識合法性 ； 社會網路分析 ； 科學社群 ； 傳播學門 ； 學術研討會

並列摘要

It is questionable whether an academic conference facilitates the process of knowledge learning, applying and updating. To answer this question via elaborating how the academic community's structure, genealogy and knowledge legitimacy grow from an academic conference, this article adopts the conceptual frame of scientific community and social network analysis, and takes the author's experience as a case for investigation. It concludes: the community members learn the interactive patterns in a conference to dialogue, confirm their relative positions in genealogy, and identify the formation of a core-peripheral structure. Also, the opportunities of paradigm shift would be located in the peripheral position.

並列關鍵字

academic conference ； communication studies ； knowledge legitimacy ； social network analysis ； scientific community